He is quite right that Wilde is in the play as a foil to Housman, and elevates the "dithyrambic" artist at the expense of the scrupulous scholar. ❋ Stoppard, Tom (2000)
Heine’s mental history, but because they are a specimen of his power in that kind of dithyrambic writing which, in less masterly hands, easily becomes ridiculous: ❋ George Eliot (1849)
We are met almost at the threshold by a colossal epic, Creation, Man and the Messiah (1830); by songs that turn into dithyrambic odes, by descriptive pieces which embrace the universe, by all the froth and roar and turbidity of genius, with none of its purity and calm. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Let us recapitulate, since the steps Socrates is taking are so important for his critique of poetry (it is noteworthy that at several junctures, Socrates generalizes his results from epic to dithyrambic, encomiastic, iambic, and lyric poetry; 533e5-534a7, 534b7-c7). ❋ Griswold, Charles (2008)
As already noted, Socrates classifies poetry (dithyrambic and tragic poetry are named) as a species of rhetoric. ❋ Griswold, Charles (2008)
Youth only can understand all that lies in the dithyrambic outpourings of youth when, after a stormy siege, of the most frantic folly and coolest common-sense, the heart finally yields to the assault of the latest comer, be it hope, or despair, as some mysterious power determines. ❋ Unknown (2007)
After the politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Such an author will at one moment write in a dithyrambic vein, as though he were tipsy; at another, nay, on the very next page, he will be pompous, severe, profoundly learned and prolix, stumbling on in the most cumbrous way and chopping up everything very small; like the late Christian Wolf, only in a modern dress. ❋ Unknown (2004)
When he came to the distribution of the prizes, he painted the joy of the prize-winners in dithyrambic strophes. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It was a dithyrambic eulogy on four or five young painters who, gifted with real ability as colorists, and exaggerating them for effect, now pretended to be revolutionists and renovators of genius. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Sophocles, and Aeschylus, and some dithyrambic odes, composed by ❋ Plutarch (2003)
If, on the other hand, you go on too long, you make him feel left behind, just as people who when walking pass beyond the boundary before turning back leave their companions behind So too if a period is too long you turn it into a speech, or something like a dithyrambic prelude. ❋ Aristotle (2002)
Introductions to forensic speeches, it must be observed, have the same value as the prologues of dramas and the introductions to epic poems; the dithyrambic prelude resembling the introduction to ❋ Aristotle (2002)
Yet poets whose plays are meant to be read are read and circulated: Chaeremon, for instance, who is as finished as a professional speech-writer; and Licymnius among the dithyrambic poets. ❋ Aristotle (2002)
During the month of August 1881 my brother resolved to reveal the teaching of the Eternal Recurrence, in dithyrambic and psalmodic form, through the mouth of Zarathustra. ❋ Unknown (2001)
But what you certainly do not know is that they are the support of a crowd of quacks, the diviners, who were sent to Thurium, the notorious physicians, the well-combed fops, who load their fingers with rings down to the nails, and the braggarts, who write dithyrambic verses, all these are idlers whom the Clouds provide a living for, because they sing them in their verses. ❋ Unknown (2000)
To treat a dithyrambic poet, for whom the tribes dispute with each other, in this style! ❋ Unknown (2000)
[The Parricide departs, and the dithyrambic poet Cinesias arrives.] ❋ Unknown (2000)
Listen to the song [Largiloquent Dithyramb] [next time] you smoke [pot]. ❋ Phoebe Jane (2007)
